Future Dates & Training Opportunities

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System Spotlight

By Jody Hattrup

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Cimarron City Library

Ashland City Library

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Consulting

By Richard Brookman

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ARSL 2022 Conference Registration Open

The 2022 Association for Rural & Small Libraries Conference, Connecting at the Crossroads, is open for early bird registration. This year it will be held in Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 14 – 17. The early bird registration will be open through July 26. Here is the conference’s webpage to find out more information about the conference. If you like what you see or know you want to go already you can register through this link. The pricing for early bird registration is:

In-Person Early Bird Pricing

ARSL Members: $275

Nonmembers: $350

Advocates, Students, & Retirees*: $225

Virtual-Only Pricing

ARSL Members: $50

Nonmembers: $75

Advocates, Students, & Retirees*: $25

*Must be an ARSL Advocate, Student, or Retiree member.

Other important dates are:

Registration – July 26, 2022 – Early bird in-person registration closes and regular in-person registration opens; and

Conference Hotels – August 16, 2022 – Booking deadline for all conference hotels.

Slogan for 2023 Summer Library Program

I know several of you are right in the middle of your Summer Library Program or just about to finish up and are ready for a break. However, I just thought with Summer Library Programming on your library’s brain I would mention next Summer’s Slogan and Theme: All Together Now/Todos Juntos Ahora; and “Kindness/Friendship/Unity”.

July’s Talks with Ted

The next “Talks with Ted” session will be on July 12, 2022, at 10:00 am Central Time. If you would like to join the session you can register through this link. If you have a question you would like to submit before July 12, for Ted to talk about you can submit your question through this link. If you attend this session remember to send me an email so your CE File can be updated for you and your library.

2022 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers “Not a Box” Order Form Available

The State Library of Kansas released information on how a library can order Not a Box title by Antoinette Portis, for this year’s Kansas Reads to Preschoolers program. The order form is through Scholastic’s Literacy Partnership Program and is available through this link. Once you navigate to this page you will need to go to the bottom of the page and click the second tab labeled “Ordering and Read Alikes”.

If you don’t have an account with Scholastic’s Literacy Partnership Program information and an email is available for you to contact Scholastic to begin an account. This page also has the link to the order form that your library can download and fill out to order your desired number of copies of the title.

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Cataloging, Collection Development, and ILL

By Kelly Easton

SWKLS Top Ten VERSO Searches! (June 2021 – June 2022)

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Technology

By Jody Hattrup

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Caution Alert!!!

Many members of SWKLS have received letters and emails that appear to be legitimate invoices and / or alerts to take some form of action. We have been contacted by several members who have received letters in the mail for what appears to be domain name renewals but are in fact an attempt to sign the recipient up for search engine optimization services. If you receive a letter in the mail similar to the one below, please know that the SWKLS Tech Department takes care of all domain name renewals and invoices.
Another recent example of misleading emails concerns the SAM.gov accounts. Our office received an email asking for validation and immediate attention for our System for Award Management (SAM) account, but was in fact a third party consulting company attempting to engage us for their services. Please do not take any kind of action without being certain who the sender is! SWKLS staff are here to help you determine if these letters and emails are legitimate.

If you get a letter in the mail similar to the one above, please know that the SWKLS office takes care of all domain name renewal
correspondence and invoices.

Informational Board Meeting Recording on June 17, 2022

Future Dates & Training Opportunities

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System Spotlight

By Jody Hattrup

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Stevens Countys’ Oceans of Fun

Sea Times for Greely County

Meade Might Be Out To Sea

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Consulting

By Richard Brookman

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New IRS Mileage Rates

On June 9, 2022, the IRS released a notice that the IRS Mileage Rate will be increasing starting July 1, 2022 and be in place through December 31, 2022. The current business rate is 58.5 cents per mile. Starting July 1, the new rate will be 62.5 cents per mile. Please follow this link to the IRS release notice for you to reference for your records. If you have other individual(s) that do your billings then be sure to relay this information to them to ensure they know of the rate change.

Notable Books Grant Application Open

The Notable Books Grant that several libraries utilize to assist in providing titles within their collections is now open. The fifteen newly added titles checklist can be found by following this link.

The grant is non-competitive and each library that decides to apply will be “reimbursed for the purchase of a single copy, in any format, of any or all of the books on the 2022 Kansas Notable Books list. Only the actual cost of the book will be reimbursed with grant funds.” Therefore, any other costs associated with the purchase of the books will be absorbed by the library (shipping & Handling, processing materials…etc.).

Here is the link to the grant application and below is a brief outline from the grant application of the timeline for submittal:

“The recipient library shall:
• To begin, submit a successful application on or before September 30, 2022
o (Step 1) Upon acknowledgement of a successful application, purchase books, and send invoices/receipts
and required checklist on or before November 15, 2022
o (Step 2) Sign and return the contract and assurances on or before November 30, 2022
o (Step 3) Provide a brief evaluation via SurveyMonkey due on or before December 15, 2022
• Promote Kansas Notable Books within your library and/or community through programs, displays, book clubs,
or other similar means.
• Further agrees to recognize IMLS in all promotions.”

The Notable Books webpage also provides promotional materials to assist with promoting the grant. When you get to the Notable Books webpage go to the bottom area of the page and it will have three tabs that you can click into. Choose the middle tab named “Promotional Materials” and click the tab. This will send you to another page that provides access to a poster, bookmark, banner, and folding brochure to use for promotion.

Looking at obtaining a Masters in Library and Information Studies?

I have done some research for one of our member librarians regarding scholarships.  She thought it might be of interest to other librarians in our System that are considering going back to obtain their Masters in Library and Information Studies. The following is a listing of scholarships that could be used to assist with funding. This is by no means an exhaustive list. Their are more than likely others available that I did not find during my search. If any of our members know of other scholarship opportunities please relay them through the System ListServ.

Emporia State University is the only Accredited Master Program in Library Science in Kansas.  They have some scholarship pages that you can look through:

School of Library and Information Management Scholarships

ESU – Graduate Scholarship Page, has two entitled “New Graduate Student Scholarship” & “McNair Scholarship” that could work for new students.  The “Robert Grover Graduate Scholarship” is for a currently enrolled student if I read it correctly, since it is based on maintaining a minimum GPA of 3.75.  The others give for Thesis work which could be used at the tail end of the program.

KLAEF (Kansas Library Association Educational Foundation Scholarship) is another resource.  However, it is a one time only scholarship and is currently not taking applications, 2022 deadline is past.  The Guidelines and Application is at the bottom of their webpage.

ALA (American Library Association Scholarship Program) is past the 2022 deadline, but is one that can be looked at again in 2023.

MPLA (Professional Development Grants) is listed on their webpage.  However, they did not take applications for 2022.  One would have to wait until 2023 to see if they start accepting applications again.

With most of these grants since they are associated with a library organization I would recommend that you become a member before you submit.  Some have requirements that you be a member of the specific association and if others don’t they give preference to members.

The Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas has a scholarship program, but when I looked into the application it is only for college students working on an undergraduate degree.

When you get to a Master or Doctorate level degree it is harder to find general scholarships.  They are offered through related business associations or through the school itself.  I did find this page “Scholarships for Women” page that one can browse.  On the main page I didn’t find anything for library science and when you click into a search feature they want a profile built to help search for scholarships which can be fill out if one chooses.  I am unfamiliar with this page so one would need to proceed at their own risk.

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Cataloging, Collection Development, and ILL

By Kelly Easton

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Just Added to the SWKLS Professional Collection!
(and available for ILL)

Recent CATExpress Usage Report is available (June ’21-May’22) / Link
New subscription allotments begin July 1.

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Technology

By Jody Hattrup

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Two Minute Tips -Canva

Future Dates & Training Opportunities

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System Spotlight

By Jody Hattrup

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Kinsley Library Awarded $2000 Grant from Save the Children to Support a Summer Reading Challenge in Kinsley

Plains Public Library is All on Deck for Summer Reading

Lane County County is Diving into Reading

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Consulting

By Richard Brookman

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State Library of Kansas’ New State Librarian

Governor Kelly announced several new appointments recently and one was for the State Library of Kansas’ Librarian. The library community welcomes Ray Walling as the new Kansas State Librarian. He holds a master’s degree in library science from the University of Michigan. Before this appointment, he served as Director of Library Services at Collins Library, Baker University since 2016. Ray was also a member of the State Library of Kansas Board as a representative for Private College Librarians.

June 17th SWKLS Board Meeting

The next board meeting for the System is this next Friday on June 17. This board meeting is an online meeting that you can attend with this link. We will begin at 10:00 am CT. You can register for the board meeting with this registration link.

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Cataloging, Collection Development, and ILL

By Kelly Easton

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H-O-T New Titles:

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Technology

By Jody Hattrup

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Two Minute Tips -Canva

Future Dates & Training Opportunities

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System Spotlight

By Jody Hattrup

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Summer is Here

Thank you to everyone that sent in their pictures of their library’s decor. We love to see what you have done with this year’s theme “Ocean of Possibilities”. If you want to share your decoration or programming ideas we would love to share them with the system.

Rolla Library

Morton County Library

Fowler Library

Kearny County Library

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Consulting

By Richard Brookman

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After Lunch Course June 9

Just a reminder that there is an After Lunch Course coming up next week on June 9. The course topic is “Intellectual Freedom: Fighting the Good Fight” presented by Marin Garnar. The Zoom session with start at 1:30 pm and the course will last approximately one hour. If you are interested in attending you can register here. After you register you will receive an email with the Zoom link to attend.

If you do attend please email Richard so he knows to add the course to your Continuing Education File.

KLA Advocacy Calendar of Ideas for the month of June

June has arrived and with the new month the Kansas Library Association Advocacy Calendar has an idea that you can consider doing through your library: “Send a thank you note to your legislators thanking them for their service during this legislative session”.

Other ideas that you could use to spotlight your library are:

“International Picnic Day” on June 18. Your library could incorporate this “day” into your Summer Reading Program or have it as a separate event. Since June 18 is on a Saturday you could do this on the Friday before on June 17 or;

“Ice Cream Soda Day” on June 20 can be combined together which is on a Monday. They say you can’t go wrong with food so combining the “International Picnic & Ice Cream Soda Day” events might be fun.

Along with inviting your Summer Reading participants, invite your area legislators so they can see in person how the library connects with the community. Don’t forget to advertise upcoming events at the library and the library’s services provided for your community.

Fun For All Webinar through Niche Academy

Niche Academy is inviting librarians to register for their upcoming free webinar “Fun for All: Game-Based Programming Across the Generations”. The webinar is on June 15 at 10:00 am CT time.

The webinar is “based on the new book Librarian’s Guide to Games and Gamers, Michelle Goodridge and Matthew Rohweder provide tips and tactics to establish a variety of game-based programming in their libraries. Participants will leave having ideas for cross-generational and specific user group programming suggestions outside of the perceived core game user group because you’re never to old to have fun!”

If you are interested you can register with this link. If you are unable to attend when the date arrives they will be sending all registrants the link to the recording of the webinar.

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Cataloging, Collection Development, and ILL

By Kelly Easton

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Catalog Clean-up / Enhancement Survey Results

• 12 libraries voted “Yes”
• 5 libraries voted “No”
• 15 libraries did not vote
• Results = Inconclusive. More discussion will occur during the next BOD meeting on 6/17/22.

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Technology

By Jody Hattrup

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Two Minute Tips -Canva

Future Dates & Training Opportunities

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System Spotlight

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If you would like to highlight your library, we’d like to hear from you. Whether it’s about your activities, programs, or anything else that is going on that you’re proud of we can hold a spotlight on your library here in the Weekly Wrap UP if you email Jody at jhattrup@swkls.org

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SpongeBob SquarePants is Everywhere

SpongeBob helped Hamilton County Library kick off the Summer Reading Library Program at the Syracuse Elementary School. He met a lot of new people. The first was a board member for the library, Colten Soelze, and next, he high-fived a 1st grader. Finally, he greets a kinderprep teacher and student. What a fun day for SpongeBob!!

SpongeBob visited the Satanta Grade School on May 17, 2022, to promote our Summer Reading Program. Exciting things are coming to Dudley Township Library for the summer.

Two Minute Tip

Future Dates & Training Opportunities

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System Spotlight

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If you would like to highlight your library, we’d like to hear from you. Whether it’s about your activities, programs, or anything else that is going on that you’re proud of we can hold a spotlight on your library here in the Weekly Wrap UP if you email Jody at jhattrup@swkls.org

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Fun in the Sun at Kearny County Library

Kearny County Library is ready for “Oceans of Possibilities”. All of the artwork was created by Cesilia Enriquez the Assistant Director of Kearny County Library. She does a beautiful job creating backdrops for every season, event, or program. The library decorates its children’s area as well as its adult area for the season.

Future Dates & Training Opportunities

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System Spotlight

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If you would like to highlight your library, we’d like to hear from you. Whether it’s about your activities, programs, or anything else that is going on that you’re proud of we can hold a spotlight on your library here in the Weekly Wrap UP if you email Jody at jhattrup@swkls.org

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Lane County Library Crafts

This past weekend Lane County Library had so much fun crafting! Painting, wreath making and string art!

Future Dates & Training Opportunities

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System Spotlight

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If you would like to highlight your library, we’d like to hear from you. Whether it’s about your activities, programs, or anything else that is going on that you’re proud of we can hold a spotlight on your library here in the Weekly Wrap UP if you email Jody at jhattrup@swkls.org

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Scott County Library Programming

Scott County Library has had a lot of fun and creative programs going on over the last couple of months. This is their second year participating in the Kansas Corn Stem program.  This Stem program was developed by the Corn Commission and offered to libraries across Kansas. The Corn Commission provided lessons and hands-on learning materials. The lessons showed the importance of corn to Kansas and the World. Millie, the Youth Services Librarian, also added another lesson about popcorn, and “Poppy” the air popper dragon came out to play.

Scott County Library’s new program is called ” Read and Hike.” The Library and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks have partnered up. Children can come into the Library and check out a backpack. The backpack contains a book, a day pass to the lake, and vouchers to the Beachhouse which has food items and supplies for campers, hikers, and fishermen.

Scott County Library has lots of fun promoting the mystery books (which are wrapped books) on the children’s side so they decided to develop it into a passive program for their adult patrons. “Read with me and have a cup of tea” was the adult version of the mystery books during the month of March. It also was a big success.

Grant County Library is Getting Ready for Summer

Sponge Bob made an appearance at Grant County Library to help kick off the  Summer Reading Sign-up for all ages on Monday the 2nd. He will also visit the elementary school. Maribel one of the Grant County Library staff members will talk to the elementary students about Summer Reading Program. They will also have school tours coming to the library where Sponge Bob will make another surprise appearance. 

Grant County Library has created a Bingo card for several years for adults. This year they have added a Facebook link to the paper card option.

Haskell Township Library Reading Cards

Haskell Township Library’s new design for reading cards. It was fun working with Haskell on a new idea. If interested in ordering library cards contact Jody.

Future Dates & Training Opportunities

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System Spotlight

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If you would like to highlight your library, we’d like to hear from you. Whether it’s about your activities, programs, or anything else that is going on that you’re proud of we can hold a spotlight on your library here in the Weekly Wrap UP if you email Jody at jhattrup@swkls.org

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Wichita County Library Easter Egg Hunt

Train U.P.- Ten Tech Topics

Library Cards

The tech team is proud to announce we have got our first batch of library cards printed and delivered. Kearny County Library was very patient with us as we worked on a layout as well as how colors are printed out. We now know the library card printer can print in full color on the front of the card but does a better print job with hues vs pastels. The back of the card can only print black. The board has passed that the first 50 cards are free. If you are interested in more than 50 cards it is .53 cents per card. The tech team also has mock-up designs for bingo cards and punch cards. If interested in printing some library cards for your library please e-mail or call Jody. Together we can work on a design and make it what you want. There is a wide variety of ways these cards can be used. Click here to see some mock-up designs.

Future Dates & Training Opportunities

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System Spotlight

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If you would like to highlight your library, we’d like to hear from you. Whether it’s about your activities, programs, or anything else that is going on that you’re proud of we can hold a spotlight on your library here in the Weekly Wrap UP if you email Jody at jhattrup@swkls.org

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Greeley County Public Library

First graders & kindergarteners like crafts, 6th graders like stories, 9th graders like to play Kahoot! And we like having all of them!

Who is My Owner??

Congrats to Suzie from Dudley Public Library she knows our pets the best!!

Organization Challenge April 25-29th

In honor of Get Organized Day, which is on April 26th we are doing an Organization Challenge. The Organization Challenge will start on April 25th to April 29th. Every day we will send out a daily challenge with a five-minute video with tips and tricks to help with your workflow. We will have a small questionnaire or little task for you to complete. Those who participate will get their names in the drawing. We will draw for three winners. They will receive an Amazon gift card.